Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Paul Magne Haakonsen "Isolation" is actually a rather enjoyable movie, a fairly straight forward horror movie, in the likes of "Alien", actually. Well, think Alien subjected to an element of bovine, and then you essentially have "Isolation".The story is about some experiment taking place on a remote farm in remote location of Ireland. Local farmer Dan (played by John Lynch) and veterinarian Orla (played by Essie Davis) are not fully aware of the extends of the experiment in which they are participating. Something is wrong with the cow carrying a calf, and during a troubled birthing, a horrible secret is revealed."Isolation" was filmed in a nice way, lots of interesting shots and angles here, and there was a very intense and adrenaline-filled moments throughout the movie. The mood was great and really helped the movie along quite nicely.The creature effects was quite interesting, and it was a very unique appearance they opted to go for in the movie, both with the larvae and the grown creature itself.And there is enough blood in the movie to keep most gorehounds fairly satisfied.Got 95 minutes to spare, then "Isolation" could be a good way to spend it. The movie is enjoyable, has a good story and some interesting creature effects.

Tim Kidner If my title hasn't put you off your takeaway Big Mac, then this unusual, modest, Irish set little horror flick from Billy O'Brien could well stir up your stagnant horror viewing.Fed up with mutant zombies aimlessly running around or silly, annoying students driving nowhere on a moonlit night, with loud judders all but making up for genuine scares?I'm not saying that Isolation will be the scariest thing you'll ever see but as it turns into 'Alien' territory, with dark, claustrophobic (& strangely familiar and homely) farm buildings and milking sheds becoming the space craft in that movie, it has its moments of being not very pleasant. At all, as the (whatever it is) wants to find a host in the farm-working humans in the story (all fair/good performances, from relative unknowns).The basic premise is a fairly sound and pertinent one, an unofficial and one-man breeding campaign for improving his herd's growing and milking capabilities result in a calf being still-born....Yes, it's a bit too long as it takes a long-winded approach to get on track, The Archers' approach seems naively quaint at times but the gore - as we 'know' its source - always seems real.Isolation has quite a low IMDb score yet some TV listings reviews rate it highly. I'm going for a safer middle ground - if you want a different horror flick to rent or download tonight, (or see it on Film 4, as I did) then it's well worth trying out. Just be careful what you're eating!

fedor8 "Isolation" was an attempt to give horror films that elusive, sexy UK-kitchen-sink-drama feel. It's a new cinematic beast (no, not a mutant cow) and I would call it the "kitchen-sink horror-film". If Mike Leigh ever decided to make a monster flick, this might be something like what it would look like.If your life-long dream has always been to see Essie Davis stick a whole arm up a cow's *ss and then get bitten by something inside it, this is the movie for you. Personally, I just wanted to see the movie coz Essie is in it, not the cow-bum-shoving part. There are only 5-6 people in the entire movie, and yet guess whom they kill off first, before even half the movie is up? Yes, Essie. Thanks a lot, guys. And thanks for letting her show up again, half an hour later, as a damn corpse.A word of advice: NEVER kill off the pretty maiden early on. In fact, don't kill her off at all. The guys are all expendable."Attack of the Killer Cows" or "Invasion of the Cow Snatchers" wouldn't have been quite as serious-sounding as "Isolation". (Let alone "Attack of the Killer Calf".) The term "isolation" is closely related to Socialism's pet disease "alienation", and what self-respecting kitchen-sink UK film could do without that? There is an air of gloom and doom and abject hopelessness all-round in this greenish-brownish film which makes the events less cheesy than they otherwise would have been. After all, these ARE cows that kill, not vampires, and major efforts (or precautions) were made to make sure we don't burst out laughing early on in the movie. In fact, they succeeded because I never once laughed. Unfortunately, I did yawn.Just to avoid misunderstandings, none of these cows suffer from mad-cow disease, it's not that kind of illness. These cows aren't loony. They're totally rational, cold-calculating murderers.It all started as an experiment in which cows were genetically modified in order to increase their growth rate. Couldn't they have just fed them more grass? Or if they wanted bigger cows they could just have sent them to regular binge-bouts in McDonalds. It seems to work for some Americans.The black girl doesn't have it easy. It's bad enough to be hiding away from your brothers in a tiny, run-down, filthy trailer, parked near a depression-inducing Oyrish farm. But then to have to be woken up by a crawling/mutating mini-cow, shaped like the behind of Ridley Scott's alien, that must be as bad as it gets. You know you've hit rock-bottom when you're sleeping in a shoddy trailer, surrounded by farm-based mutant hell-beasts, sneaking up to your c***** at night.Speaking of which, the movie ends with the black girl's pregnancy, 4 months later. I guess the makers of this mediocrity were quite optimistic that "Isolation" would be a smash-hit, hence why not leave a door open for a pointless sequel. Will tiny, shapeless cows take over the world - or won't they? That's almost as exciting as contemplating whether Jane Austin's Mr.Darcy will marry Tina or Gina. Oh, no, I'm yawning again.

Leofwine_draca This low-budget Irish monster movie has much in common with the recent American horror film SPLINTER . While it may not be quite as good as that movie, it has the same kind of grim and frightening atmosphere in its depiction of a small group of people in a rural locale who find themselves at the mercy of a seemingly unstoppable creation. This time around, genetically-modified cattle are the breeding ground for a strange parasite made of bone and gristle that haunts the inhabitants of a farm.The film has a strong visual style. The mucky farmyards and cattle sheds are brought vividly to a grimy, dirty life where you can almost smell the manure. The scenes with the creature are grim and disturbing, and the camera-work frequently had me on edge while I was waiting to find out what transpired next. The cast is small but effective, with particular mention going to Marcel Iures as the scientist responsible for the horrors that unfold and Sean Harris as the innocent man caught up in it all. ISOLATION may not be a very original or memorable film, but it is often startling, vicious and nasty and I found it a breath of fresh air amid other contemporary horror fare.